Packet Power Blog

Lower your data center energy costs by raising the temperature

Here's an excerpt from a brief article by Brian Renwick on how raising the ambient air temperature in your data center can significantly lower energy costs. Note that as the temperature increases, so does the need to closely monitor it. Do that... Read More

Know your Data Center Power, Part 3 - Single phase vs. three phase

Let’s use our water pipe analogy again: imagine an “AC water” system that delivers alternating pulses of water pressure and vacuum in a closed loop system, using two pipes. Water flows to the receiver (some sort of a hydraulic engine) through one... Read More

Australian Customer OMNIconnect blogs about Packet Power

OMNIconnect, a data center operator in Australia that we have worked with for almost a year, featured Packet Power in their blog. Check it out here. Read More

Know your Power, Part 2 - AC/DC and the Power Factor

Most data centers today use AC (Alternating Current) power. The current within an AC system flows in one direction, reverses, flows backward and then forward again 50 or 60 times a second, depending on what country you’re in. That means that voltage... Read More

Know your Power - The Basics

Power is an essential part of data center operations. Data centers must make sure enough power is always available. This has always been a challenge, but the challenge has grown as data center operators must not also contend with delivering far more... Read More

Data Center Power Monitoring – Smart or Easy or Both

There are a couple of words in the Hi-tech lexicon that have been overworked to the point of irrelevancy in the IT world because nearly every hardware and software vendor (including us) says they have the easiest and smartest solution. However... Read More

Data center monitoring - how much is enough?

You won't be surprised to learn that those of us at Packet Power are big advocates of data center power and temperature monitoring. After all, it is what we do. Read More